How do I install a .deb package that isn't in a repository?

[Neil Woolford]

Hi,

I am one of those odd souls who rather likes the Opera browser.

I can download a Debian package from the Opera website.

Ideally I'd like to be consistent in the way I install packages, and use
Synaptic to do the job.  In fact the file associations are set up so that
Debian packages should open with Synaptic.  If I double-click the file
in the browser I get an error message that Synaptic must be run as root.

Trying to drag and drop to an open Synaptic doesn't work either.

How do I get Synaptic to find the package?  A lone package doesn't
seem to be addable as a repository.  Can I build a little local repository
that just contains the package I'm interested in?  Or should I just use
sudo dpkg from the command line?

Neil
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